How to Restart or Reinstall the System Restore Service Several readers have written to say that their System Restore feature has stopped working, sometimes after installing updates. The first thing to try is stopping and restarting the service. To do this, open the Services node from the Computer Management console (right click My Computer and select Manage. Expand Services and Applications and click Services). In the right pane, scroll down to System Restore Service. Right click, select Stop. After the service has stopped, right click again and select Start. If this doesn't work, you might have to reinstall System Restore. Here's how: First ensure that all hidden files and folders are displayed (in Windows Explorer, click Tools | Folder Options | View tab, and click the option button that says "Show hidden files and folders." Uncheck "Hide protected operating system files." Uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types"). In Windows Explorer, navigate to the Windows folder where you installed XP (by default, C:\Windows). Click the Inf folder. Scroll down to locate the sr.inf file. Right click it and select Install (you might be asked to insert the XP installation CD or point to the i386 installation folder on the hard disk). Note that this procedure will destroy any restore points you made previously, but if System Restore isn't working, you can't use them anyway. posted by Yee 11:34 PM . . .
